Hong Kong stocks plunge at open after Wall St rout

MG News | February 09, 2018 at 10:34 AM GMT+05:00

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Hong Kong stocks suffered another hammering in the opening minutes of trade on Friday after Wall Street was routed for the second time this week on worries about rising US interest rates.

The Hang Seng Index dived 3.13 percent, or 952.70 points, to 29,498.57 in early trade.

And the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index lost 2.73 percent, or 89.20 points, to 3,172.85, while the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, fell 2.42 percent, or 42.06 points, to 1,692.51 – AFP/APP

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Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	172,170.29 229.01M	-3.74% -6682.81
ALLSHR	103,476.64 539.96M	-3.60% -3859.22
KSE30	52,658.79 103.60M	-3.69% -2017.91
KMI30	240,511.29 72.96M	-4.03% -10109.65
KMIALLSHR	65,988.04 237.17M	-3.87% -2659.27
BKTi	51,012.91 49.84M	-3.34% -1760.19
OGTi	33,565.47 12.61M	-4.19% -1466.95

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	66,725.00	67,400.00 66,300.00	395.00 0.60%
BRENT CRUDE	71.35	71.60 70.19	1.00 1.42%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	96.00	0.00 0.00	-3.10 -3.13%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	105.50	0.00 0.00	-1.75 -1.63%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,071.50	1,071.50 1,071.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	66.04	66.29 64.77	0.99 1.52%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	13.73	13.85 13.69	-0.03 -0.22%